“But if at his age he’s going to be the main striker, then I don’t see that. If you’re talking about a 36-year-old, as special as he’s been over his career, as special as he is now, I don’t think he should be the main guy next season.”

“When this club has been successful, when I was playing and when Michael Owen was playing, we always had three or four brilliant strikers.”

United’s win means they know that a draw in their final group game against Zorya Luhansk will see them progress to the knockout stages.

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